The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-31
CLARA BELLk'S BUDaxf.
TIE HOT WEATHER girl OF THE
SEASON OF 1887.
Mr.. Vanderbilt and His Yacht
Shopping Disc0mforts - Adyen.
lures OF wealthy Babies.
lsPFCI.L TO TER ArPEAL.I


annually developed a new hot
weather girl. How she is generated
is a mystery. But she is palpable
entity, and she always has some
striking characteristic to distinguish
her from the girl of preceding sea-
sons. This time she is caresser.
This quality is quite innocent
and maideply, for her caresses
are bestowed, so far as public prac-
tice goes, upon members of her own
sex. | have seen her already at
Saratoga, Newport and Long Branch,
and | hear that she is at every other
American resort of any account.
Her popularity lies ia the coddling
Of girls and women with whom she is
familiar. In dialogue, she gently
shucks tho other under the chin,
strokes her hair or pats her shoulder,
doing it with a manner OF swee. in
geniousness, as though it was an I'M
conscious expression of an affection.
ate nature. Zach summer has its
new fashions in manners among the
polite, and the caresser is the outpost
Of 1887.
AS millionaires become plentier in
New York, it is difficult toimagine
how people who are bound to be sim
gular and exclusive will fnd divers
ions sacred to themselves. Already
steam yachting, that sport whish a
few years ago was restricted 10 half
dozen families,is comparatively com
mon. That is TO say, not less than
fifty steam yachts are now al "a! with
wealthy New Workers on board. The
Astors and Vsnderbilts set the fash
ion, and as many follow as are able.
tits considered exquisitely desirable,
not to go TO one OF the popular re-
sor.s, no matter how generally ia
vored or costly they may be, but to
sail clear away from society on
yacht, leaving the rest OF wealth's
world to discuss aud envy them. The
exclusive character of steam yacht
ing cannot be more strikingly dem
onstrated than by culling one little
item IRON the statistics ON this
branch Of marioe information. There
are only seyenty-6ve steam yachts
ever one hundred feet in length in
all America. None Of these boats
make less than fifteen miles an hour,
and most OF them are capable of
transatlantic trip. Several OF
them, like James Gordon Benefits
Namouna, have been around the
world. The Namouua is 226 feet
long over all TIE largest steam
yacht yet built is William X. Van
derbuilt's new boat. the Alva, which
is 2S5 feet long. IL costs the owner
OF the Alva upward of 1920 a
month % run the Alva on an ocean
voyage without spending any money
on provisions for himself and guests.
As a fashionable thing cannot serve
its purpose without being displayed,
the cost OF entertaining guests
enters as the biggest bill in steam
yachting. 1t is said that Vanderbilt
on the Alva aud Jay Gould on the
Atalanta frequently spend 500 q
day for their sport. When the Alva
goes 10 sea she carries a pilot, two
engineers, two firemen, a steward, a
cook and seven sailors. Besides
these there are servants in proper
ton TO the number uf guests. The
boat is not upjustly called floating
palace, for IL is 70 arranged inter
nally that the owner and his friends
may live almost exactly as they do on
shore. The diniug saloon, for in
stance, is eighteen by thirty-one
feet in measurement. There is a
we'll stocked library, aud ten suites
Of looms, in each OF which is in.
cluded sitting room, chamber aud
bath room. Aud, there il besides a
feature which is probably to be found
on no other yacht in the world, a
nursery Tor children aud goyoruosses.
Who shall depict the woes Of
shopping in this broiliDg weather?
And there Is lots Of il 70 be done.
Husband goes TO the Adirondack
for few weeks, the BOYS have their
outing, you Yourself must take the
nurse and baby 20 the seaside, aud
for each aud all OF these expeditions
a job Of buying must be done. The
stores are simply suf eating. The
girls behind the counters are 20 oc-
cupied in discussing their last
nights adventures or the coming
evenings performance that you get
scant attention. A lady half dead
with rushing about, buying, match
ing, ordering and 50 on, came out
last into one Of our big emporlums
and asked for Oriental lace.
Farther along" answered Miss
Fresh, without looking up. C"And
l told Henry should not Think OF
such a thing, and sea he TO me-)
Oriental lace, II you please" TO
second girl.
"Narrcr or vide (the idea Of him
thinking so-he kept on chatting aud
kinder hiniiog); that's all the narrer
We got" ("I bet q dollar | got a
letter 10 the house tonight. Say,
jimmy, what be you going to wear 10
the Coteric. LIN going to put lace
sleeyo,) No, We hain't gotit that
width"
/ bought some here lately. and you
had = great quantity. IL you will
spend time to lock You may iind il;
otherwise ! shall see II the proprie.
tor will got me more"
well, j never. Jimmy, have we
got any lace thai width?'
"No;you nocdn't 20 look. (Hurry.
inr aside). But the letter that he
looked for never came"
Ny poor friend staggered on aud
lurched up against the hosiery ooun l..
ter. An animated conversation was
here going on between four Of the
clerkesses and a cash girl.
"Havo you this syle Of gentle.
mems hose 10 number l02"
"You can look an see; they're all
on the EQUATOR" and the eirl turned
away, humming: But the letter that
be looked for nevor came. How
many pairs2 Four times thirty.two
ia al % CASH. CASH. (But the